The Baikal rift is an active seismic region, as many continental rifts. Its high seismicity is associated with ongoing synrift tectonism with faulting of various geometries in rift basins and on rift ridges, under the effect of the ESE motion of the Transbaikalian block. In the suggested seismotectonic map of Siberia and the Russian Far East, the rift borders stand out against the almost aseismic Siberian craton, the moderately seismic Aldan-Okhotsk and Transbaikalian regions, and highly seismic North Mongolia and Baikal rift basins.
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